With the Google APi, I am able to do 1000 queries per day. But how does this work with popular pagerank-tools? I suppose many of them get a lot more than 1000 requests each day? Appreciate any answers. Thanks. EDIT: Ok, found out I can't get PR with the Google API. Please ignore this post.
Google web APIS allows you to submit 1000 queries a day Many web sets which offer value added functionality on top of Google web API ask you to enter your key in a box somewhere on the page.Thus you can use the page 1000 times a day but other people who put in their keys can also use their 1000 query limit.Thus the page can potentially used millions of times a day without violating any Google TOS As far as i know there is no way retrieve page rank from Web APIs.I am myself trying to do it for my web API desktop application.
However, if your usage is commercial... E.g. for a site showing ads / whatever. You need to get permission first. And, well, I have tried (two times some months apart, the second time I almost resorted to begging ), and Google's auto response is they do not give permission anymore. And if you intend to write software, even freeware (which per definition is often commercial if it pushes a site selling other commercial stuff)... Well... again, you need permission... Which you can not get. At least I did not get any response beyond the auto for my SEO shareware tool. Anyways... My conclusion is that "fair use" is OK no matter the technique... (Personally I believe the API is worse compared to scraping... As it actually requires more 10 * queries). Anyways, the whole thing still seems weird to me as Google does allow some SEO companies access to their API...? Hmm... Divide and conquer?
I really dont know whats the secret to getting Google's acceptance for commercial usage.I hv heard that www.copyscape.com has got it.Also a few others maanged to get it but theres no well defined path to it
Well, if one just could license it then... But Google just completely ignores me I just posted this message to google.public.web-apis : " Conflicting FAQ / terms whether OK to make software support WebAPI " First, using a normal definition of "commercial", the following is not OK : Owning a website serving e.g. Google Adsense ads (thus commercial) Checking position of a phrase to find out if website ranks well. Most free services / products implementing Google WebAPI usually push a service, product or something, thus, they are all commercial as well... Even so, most people seem to believe they do not need to ask permission for above... At least that is my impression... This leaves me to believe "commercial usage" may be meant to be interpreted in a specific context? Reading the FAQ is also quite interesting: " 13. Can I develop commercial applications using Google Web APIs? You can develop any application you want, but you must abide by the Google Web APIs terms of service. One condition is you cannot create a commercial service using Google Web APIs without first obtaining written... " As the question specificly retains to "commercial" software... And the first line states "You can develop any application you want"... And later specificly mentions service as something to ask permission for... Well, together with the fact (my impression) that many prominent, and less prominent, companies making SEO shareware support the Google WebAPI... It seems to me that Google does not mind if: Users of the application still need to supply their own Google WebAPI key. The application does not compete with Google (doh!) Is that the consensus? If is not the case, and Google indeed does allow some companies to use the WebAPI, but others not, is the whole WebAPI then a brilliant "divide and conquer" strategy?
What if I create 100s of google key and use those to search google? Does google can tract such activities?
I think most of the commercial popular webtools doing this without asking the user to key-in the Google API .